Simone Young

Chief Conductor

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The Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince glide through one of the most exquisite melodies Tchaikovsky ever wrote for ballet. Bernstein’s Candide Overture arrives with a snap, then the Mambo from West Side Story – so irrepressible it has long since escaped Broadway.

Elena Kats-Chernin’s Dance of the Paper Umbrellas offers a moment of calm before the drama of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, then we journey from the Wild West in Copland’s Hoe-Down to Dvořák’s native Bohemia and their Slavonic Dances.

You can keep your Peaceful Piano and Calming Classical playlists – this is music to get your blood pumping! Vanessa Hughes presides over the mayhem. 

Program

BERNSTEIN

Candide: Overture

Elena KATS-CHERNIN

Dance of the Paper Umbrellas

TCHAIKOVSKY

Swan Lake: Scène & Valse

COPLAND

Rodeo: Hoe-Down

BERNSTEIN

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Mambo

DVOŘÁK

Slavonic Dances, Op.46: No.8

Artists

Carlo Antonioli

Carlo Antonioli

Conductor

Vanessa Hughes

Presenter

Vanessa Hughes is a broadcaster, presenting Classic Drive and the Classic Choir Hour on ABC Classic. She was raised on the music of the Czech masters, thanks to her grandmother’s excellent record collection and fell in love with choral music after a visit to the local library resulted in her borrowing a rather exotic-looking disc of Palestrina masses. She has been a choir nerd ever since. Having acquired a law degree, Vanessa decided it was useless and went into radio instead, where she has advocated for ethnic and gender diverse composers and a better funded Australian arts industry. Before moving to ABC Classic, Vanessa worked at ABC Radio Sydney.  In her spare time, Vanessa helps run Inner West Voices, a strictly non-auditioned community choir based in Sydney and volunteers for the Radio Reading Network.

Vanessa Hughes
Sydney Town Hall

Presented at

Sydney Town Hall

483 George Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000

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